Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Amritsar is the 15th member of the IIM family. It is set up by the Ministry of Human Resources Development with the support of the Government of Punjab. IIM Amritsar is run under the mentorship of the 5th oldest and one of the premier management institutes in the country i.e. IIM Kozhikode. IIM Amritsar was established in 2015. The first batch of the Institute was enrolled in August 2015. IIM Amritsar Board of Governance & Society was constituted later on October 14, 2015. The Institute is located in Amritsar, the holy land spreading positivity of Golden Temple.

IIM Amritsar is currently offering a Post Graduate Program in Management. This program has been designed in a way to provide world-class management education so as to meet the requirements of enterprises across different sectors who are in the need of highly insightful management professionals. The institute is committed to excellence in imparting quality and advanced management education without neglecting values and ethics in the hearts, thoughts and actions of the future managers.

IIM Amritsar is currently operating from the transit campus which is located inside the Punjab Institute of Technology, Government Polytechnic Compound. Its permanent campus is spread over 60 acres of lush green land. It is situated at Manavala on Amritsar-Jalandhar GT Road. Its permanent campus is under construction at the present, but located in at a place which will provide easy access to all prominent places in Amritsar like Railway Station, International Airport, Inter State Bus Terminal (ISBT), Golden Temple, etc. The campus is designed in a way to provide an eco-friendly campus giving an amazing learning experience to the students. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has laid down the foundation stone for IIM Amritsar Campus in June 2016.

IIM Amritsar follows the same pedagogy as followed by the other members of the prestigious IIM fraternity. Every state-of-the-art facilities are provided by the Institute, classrooms are IT-enabled, a digital library consisting various journals, auditorium, student activity room, sports facilities (both indoor & outdoor), gym,  hostel rooms, etc. IIM Amritsar has created a Placement Committee which is a student body, responsible for carrying out all the activities related to placements. IIM Amritsar has strong link with the corporate world which helps in the development and growth of the students through the guest lectures and internship programs. The corporate partners of IIM Amritsar participate in placement process also and do campus recruitment. Some of the recruiters are HDFC Bank, Infosys, ICICI Bank, Samsung, Pidilite, Wipro, Vodafone, Hindustan Unilever Limited, Reliance, Deloitte, Indian Oil, Philips, Shopclues, Microsoft, Mahindra Rise, etc.